[Mailman-Users] Exim and beta5

[Chuck Dale]

Hmm. I've never used exim but it looks like you have to tell it
somewhere which UID to use for running the mailman scripts.

Ideas anyone?

Chuck

Wrote Derry Goberdhansingh on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:02:22AM -0400:
> Here is an output of mesages from /var/log/exim/paniclog
> 
> 2000-09-06 20:05:05 13Wq7l-0006VD-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor
> the address_pipe transport set a uid for local
>  delivery of |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test
> 2000-09-06 20:06:03 13Wq8h-0006Vh-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor
> the address_pipe transport set a uid for local
>  delivery of |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test
> 2000-09-06 20:06:05 13Wq8j-0006Vk-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor
> the address_pipe transport set a uid for local
>  delivery of |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test
> 
> Here is the some messages from /var/log/exim/mainlog
> 
> 
> 2000-09-06 20:05:14 13Wq7u-0006VS-00 <= test-admin at mytrini.com H=localhost
> (magi.mytrini.com) [127.0.0.1] U=www-data P=esmt
> p S=620
> 2000-09-06 20:05:14 13Wq7u-0006VS-00 => sam <sam at mytrini.com> D=localuser
> T=local_delivery
> 2000-09-06 20:05:14 13Wq7u-0006VS-00 Completed
> 2000-09-06 20:05:14 13Wq7u-0006VW-00 <= test-admin at mytrini.com H=localhost
> (magi.mytrini.com) [127.0.0.1] U=www-data P=esmt
> p S=1739
> 2000-09-06 20:05:14 13Wq7u-0006VZ-00 <= test-admin at mytrini.com H=localhost
> (magi.mytrini.com) [127.0.0.1] U=www-data P=esmt
> p S=626
> 2000-09-06 20:05:15 13Wq7u-0006VZ-00 => sam <sam at mytrini.com> D=localuser
> T=local_delivery
> 2000-09-06 20:05:15 13Wq7u-0006VZ-00 Completed
> 2000-09-06 20:05:17 13Wq7u-0006VW-00 => dgoberdh at speakeasy.org R=lookuphost
> T=remote_smtp H=gonzo.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.
> 5]
> 2000-09-06 20:05:17 13Wq7u-0006VW-00 Completed
> 2000-09-06 20:05:48 13Wq7t-0006VP-00 => dgoberdh at gmu.edu R=lookuphost
> T=remote_smtp H=portal.gmu.edu [129.174.1.8]
> 2000-09-06 20:05:48 13Wq7t-0006VP-00 Completed
> 2000-09-06 20:06:03 13Wq8h-0006Vh-00 <= test-admin at mytrini.com H=localhost
> (magi.mytrini.com) [127.0.0.1] U=mailman P=esmtp
>  S=834
> 2000-09-06 20:06:03 13Wq8h-0006Vh-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor
> the address_pipe transport set a uid for local
>  delivery of |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test
> 2000-09-06 20:06:05 13Wq8j-0006Vk-00 <= dgoberdh at speakeasy.org
> H=lolita.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.13] P=smtp S=2084 id=00e70
> 1c0188b$247dd140$0201a8c0 at mytrini.com
> 2000-09-06 20:06:05 13Wq8j-0006Vk-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor
> the address_pipe transport set a uid for local
>  delivery of |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> > Please post some logs (perhaps mailman/logs/error|post,
> > /var/log/mail.err|log).
> >
> > Are the corn jobs installed?
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > Wrote Derry Goberdhansingh on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:30:14AM -0400:
> > > Well I installed Mailman on my debian box, which is running Exim with a
> mail
> > > GID of 8 <-- mail user and group.
> > >  I did a ./configure --with-mail-gid=8 and installed everything, I
> created a
> > > test list and added the aliases to the /etc/aliases file. I sent a
> message
> > > to the test list, that's where the problem comes in.... I don't get any
> mail
> > > from it. I've got two other accounts, seperate from the admin and I
> tried
> > > sending mail from both of them, but I still get a message from the list.
> > >
> > > Can someone please tell me what I'm possibly doing wrong? I did a cat
> > > /etc/group and /etc/passwd to find out the mail GID, which turned out to
> be
> > > 8, with a UID of mail. I do have  FQDN so that's not the problem, I just
> > > copied the aliases directly from what the newlist command gave me. So
> that's
> > > correct.
> > >
> > > Please help if you can.
> 
> 

               [ charles hamilton dale <bug at aphid.net> ]